By Julie Zigoris : sfstandard – excerpt
It’s one of San Francisco’s great art mysteries—how did 38 artworks by a Jewish artist from the famed School of Paris end up on a park bench halfway around the world, more than 80 years after their creator died in the Holocaust?
The Standard was the first to break the story about an unlikely trove of artworks discovered in Crane Cove Park in 2022, tracing a line from their creation in Paris to a framing shop Huntsville, Alabama, to their ultimate resting place in San Francisco—a path that traveled through the artist Ary Arcadie Lochakov’s extended family ties.
But there’s a new chapter in this continuously unfolding story, one that raises even more questions about the artworks’ posthumous journey. One month before Lochakov’s pieces appeared on a cement bench in the Dogpatch, a professor and art hunter in Washington, D.C., secured his own Lochakov painting—this one purchased online via a Goodwill store in South San Francisco…(more)
Ghosts of artists from the past that live on through the antics of unknown characters who appear to be somewhat nefarious. Whatever their intentions are, they are bringing a new life to otherwise lost art and creating quite a stir among art historians.
Beaux Artists 